This writeup on the software industry's gender bias is maddening and depressing. To summarize, someone commenting on Secret made a horrendous assumption about a woman being "unqualified" to be a software engineer in the context of her giving an interview and disregarding her as defacto technically incompetent. The commenter was unwilling...
Software engineers. Most of the time, we're docile and content and easy to please. We write software for big enterprises and tiny startups alike, create our own startups once in a while, and...
Is the software development industry ageist? For some industries, this is not an unreasonable proposition. Professional athletes peak in their late 20s[1]; professional gamers (e.g., e-sport atheletes) peak even earlier, in their early 20s. If you were to apply for the job of the president of the United States, you are legally required...
The software engineer's career path is pretty straight forward at most companies. Starting at the intern or new grad level, there's essentially a number of levels to progress through, each adding...
I've worked, so far, for: * A mid-sized financial software firm, * Two small startups * One multinational and global technology firm, and * One big startup The work aside, I always made myself willing and available for interviews and hiring discussions; beyond shipping code, the next most valuable thing I could do was to grow the...
I listen to Accidental Tech Podcast[1], and in episode 54, there was a hearty discussion on whether enabling warnings as errors in production – or in some cases, development – was a good idea. The context was around whether that kind of strict error checking could have prevented the #gotofail SSL bug that affected iOS and...
